Bradley Bell

Brad Bell is the former Director of the School of Architecture (2016-2023) and an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington. Before arriving to UT Arlington in 2005, he held teaching positions at the University of Colorado and Tulane University. Since 2014, he has directed the Digital Architecture Research Consortium (DARC) at UT Arlington, which is a group of industry and academic partners working on integrating advanced digital technologies and material applications into innovative building solutions. He has lectured, taught, and written on computational design and fabrication uses for the past two decades.

From 2008 to 2018, he founded and co-directed TEX-FAB, an organization committed to providing a platform for digital fabrication and parametric modeling education to the professional, academic, and manufacturing communities in Texas.

Professor Bell was awarded the UT Arlington President’s Medal for Teaching Excellence in 2015, and from the Texas Society of Architects, he was awarded the Outstanding Educational Contribution in Honor of Edward J. Romieniec FAIA. (2021) and the Citation of Honor for his leadership in establishing the nationally recognized Design-Build Program at UT Arlington (2023).

Brad has participated in a number of regional and national boards over the past decade. These include the AIA Ft. Worth (2016 - 2023), the AIA Dallas (2017-2023), ACADIA (2013-2015), and the Dallas Architecture Forum (2016 to present), where he also serves as lecture programming chair.

Over the past 20 years, his design practice has built innovative residential houses in Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M and a Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.